Medical Assistant
The Medical Assistant Program is intended to prepare students to provide patient care in physician’s offices, minor emergency centers, and other types of freestanding medical clinics. In the clinical setting, the medical assistant provides assistance to the physician during assessment and examination of patients, treatment interventions, and in-office diagnostic protocols. Students in this program will learn to perform physical assessments, take medical histories, take and record vital signs, administer medications, perform venipuncture, and interpret basic laboratory results.
Medical Assistants are also prepared to assume office administrative roles in physician’s offices, including scheduling procedures, billing protocols, coding mechanisms, typing of medical correspondence utilizing appropriate medical terminology, office accounting procedures, and insurance processing.